The Middle Atlantic Folklife Association will be holding its 1997 Annual
Conference in Ithaca, NY, on May 2-3. This conference will focus on
Folklore and Vernacular Architecture: the Finnish Sauna, and is being
co-sponsored by the New York Folklore Society.
Finns began moving to Central NY in the early 1900s, and there were large
settlements in both Tompkins and Tioga Counties. The sauna, a
long-standing Finnish tradition, was often the first building to be
constructed, even before the farm houses were repaired. These buildings
were designed and built from the experience and cultural knowledge of the
people, and many are still in use today.
The conference will begin Friday evening with a reception and welcome.
Saturday will include panel discussions, a tour of area saunas, and a
dinner/dance featuring Finnish food and music. Anyone wanting more
information may contact the New York Folklore Society, PO Box 130,
Newfield, NY 14857 or email me: [log in to unmask]
Deborah Clover, conference coordinator
NYFS
Ithaca, NY
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You are invited to celebrate the bicentennial (March 6) of the Honorable
Gerrit Smith by visiting the (pretty much finished) Gerrit Smith Virtual
Museum at http://www.NYHistory.com/gerritsmith.
This site has been in the works for some time, but is now located in one
of its official homes (plans are to mirror the site at Syracuse
University and Hamilton College). Persons with an interest are invited
to visit the site and offer your contributions. Especially if you can't
make the birthday party (7:00 PM Thursday, March 6, Smithfield Community
Center, Peterboro, NY).
Bob Shear
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New York City's subway system is justifiably famous and its history is a
great story. But we NYers have to remember other cities have subways
too. Let me direct your attention to a most amazing website.
It has everything one could ever ask for on the world's subways with
lots of subsites to our system. Try it, you'll like it.
http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html
Bill Evans
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<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1815</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
=46eb 13 =09
<italic>New Yorker Staats-Zeitung</italic> publisher Anna Behr (Uhl)
is born in W=FCrzburg, Germany.
=46eb 23 =09
Inventor Robert Fulton dies, in New York City, of pneumonia.
=46eb 25 =09
The town of Colonie is divided and merged into the towns of Albany and
Watervliet. ** Fulton is buried in lower Manhattan.
Mar 4 =09
Educator Myrtilla Miner is born in Brookfield.
Mar 20 =09
U. S. Brigadier General John Henry Martindale is born in Sandy Hill.
May 20 =09
Stephen Decatur sails from New York for the Mediterranean with a fleet
of ten ships, to deal with the Barbaray pirates.
Jun 19 =09
The area around Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan is sold by the city.
Nov 12 =09
Suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Jamestown.
December<bold> </bold>
Martin Van Buren visits Washington, to assess Daniel Tompkins as a
possible rival for a presidential nomination. Meanwhile, Tompkins
decides to run for another term as governor. He is nominated for
Vice-President.
Dec 2 =09
The Hudson River freezes over.
Dec 3 =09
New York City Mayor De Witt Clinton is appointed to prepare a memorial
to the state legislature, proposing a canal across the state.
City
John Ferguson is appointed mayor for the year. ** Jacob Radcliff
is appointed mayor for each of the next tthree years.
State - Buffalo is rebuilt. ** The price for Genesee River wheat
reaches $15 a barrel. ** Ephraim Russ' Episcopal Church in
Rensselaerville is built. ** Batavia's Holland Land Company
builds a fire-proof land office building there. It will become the
Holland Land Office </fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Museum. ** The approximate date
Samuel De Veaux opens a store in Le Roy, that will one day become the
Wiss House Hotel. ** Historian-physician Dr. William Seaver
becomes the first physician in Darien. ** Martin Van Buren
becomes New York State Attorney General. His clerk, Benjamin F. Butler,
becomes his law partner.
Rochesterville
The First Presbyterian Church of Rochester is founded. ** Elisha
Johnson lays out the first Court Street. ** Lyell Street is
created.
<bold>1816</bold>
Mar 8 =09
The New York State Canal Commission submits its final report to the
legislature.
April<bold> </bold>=09
Martin Van Buren is reelected to the state Senate.
Apr 17 =09
Stephen van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Samuel Young, Joseph Ellicott
and Myron Holley are appointed as commissioners for an Erie canal.
June =09
Killing frosts over the next three months wipe out all major crops in
the Genesee Valley - The Year Without a Summer.
City
The American Bible Society is founded. ** Five shipments of ice
are made to the South, Asia and South America.
State
The <italic>Ontario, </italic>the first steamboat on the Great Lakes,
is launched at Sackets Harbor. ** The grandparents of temperance
reformer Frances Willard settle in the Churchville area. ** The
first printing press in Monroe and Seneca counties. ** Buffalo is
reincorporated. ** The approximate date David Rumsey founds the
<italic>Bath Gazette</italic> and Benjamin Smead begins the
<italic>Steuben (& Allegany) Patriot</italic>. The approximate year
Rumsey also attempts to revivie the Bath <italic>Farmers'
Advocate</italic>; the paper lasts about a year. ** Judge Elijah
Miller has a house built in Auburn. He will give it to his
daughterFrances and her new husband William Henry Seward in 1824.
Carpenter Brigham Young works on the house. ** General Peter
Porter is appointed to the commission studying the boundary with
Canada. He builds a house in Black Rock. ** A front porch with
Doric columns is added to Batavia's Holland Land Office. ** =20
Dansville's Colonel Nathaniel Rochester is appointed a
presidential/vice-presidential elector for the second time. ** =20
The steamer <italic>Chancellor Livingston</italic>, the last steamboat
built to Fulton's specifications, goes into service on the Hudson
River. ** Joseph Rodman Drake writes the fantasy <italic>The
Culprit Fay</italic>. It is not published until 1834, 14 years after
his death.
Alfred
The town annexes part of the town of Angelica. ** The first
Seventh Day Baptist church is completed.
Rochester
Pioneer Oliver Culver builds a house and tavern.
<bold>1817</bold>
=46eb 14 =09
A soup kitchen opens on New York 's Franklin Street.
March =09
New York State's Bank of Geneva (today's National Bank of Geneva) is
chartered.
Apr 15 =09
The state legislature authorizes construction of the Erie Canal.
Jul 4 =09
The first ground is broken for the Erie Canal, at Rome, with Benjamin
Wright as chief engineer of the Middle Section.
Jul 28 =09
Sylvanus Thayer takes command of West Point.
August =09
Henry Bradshaw Fearon, of Coates & Fearon wine merchants of London,
England, hired by 39 families wishing to emigrate to the U. S., arrives
in New York City to explore potential settlement sites. At the
invitation of a Fishkill land owner named DeWint, Fearon travels up the
Hudson River on the steamboat <italic>Chancellor Livingston</italic>. =20
Sep 1 =09
The Albany Academy opens.
City
The Irish force their way into the Tammany organization. ** The
New York Stock and Exchange Board is organized.
State
Leonard Jerome, grandfather of Winston Churchill, is born in Pompey. =20
** The first printing press in Chataugue (sic), Livingston and Yates
counties. ** A shipping dock is built three miles from the mouth
of the Genesee River, followed by a wooden arch bridge - the longest in
the world - across the river's gorge. The new settlement is called
Carthage. The steamboat <italic>Ontario</italic> out of Sackets Harbor
is the first to arrive at the landing. ** 5,000 bushels of flour
are shipped out of the Genesee River to Montr=E9al during the last three
months of the season. ** Albany's Lancasterian Society erects a
school building, later occupied by the Albany Medical College. ** =20
Chief Erie Canal engineer Benjamin Wright makes David Stanhope Bates
assistant engineer on the middle division. ** A new treaty with
the Onondaga reduces the size of their reservation further. ** =20
Port Gibson, in the future Wayne County, is settled. ** The open
boat <italic>Troyer</italic> brings Buffalo the first flour from the
west. ** Colonel Nathaniel Rochester attends a session of the
legislature at Albany to attempt to get recognition of Monroe County. =20
** Batavia banker Trumbull Cary builds a post-colonial house on
East Main Street. </fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>** The Champlain Canal is
completed, connecting the Hudson River and Lake Champlain.
Rochesterville
=46rancis Brown is elected the first mayor of the newly incorporated
village. ** The population reaches 700. ** Austin Steward,
a black grocer, goes into business. ** Spring floods damage the
business section. ** Elisha Johnson and Orson Seymour lay out a
subdivision on the east bank of the Genesee River.
<bold>1818</bold>
Mar 26 =09
The city's first savings bank opens.
Apr 18 =09
The Great Lakes shipping season for the Genesee River opens. In the
next four months 1158 bushels of pearl ash and 120,000 barrel staves
are shipped out for export. The total value of the shipments for the
season will reach $300,000.
Apr 21 =09
The New York State Library is founded, located in the upper stories of
the Capitol.
May 27 =09
Suffragette Amelia Jenks Jenks Bloomer is born in Homer.
June<bold> =09
</bold>The <italic>Fulton I</italic> is brought out of mothballs to
take U. S. President James Madison on a ceremonial excursion to Staten
Island.
Aug 23 =09
The first steamboat on the Great Lakes,
<italic>Walk-in-the-Water</italic>, leaves Buffalo on its maiden
voyage, stopping at Dunkirk, and continuing on to Cleveland and
Detroit.
City
The Army discusses fortifications for the Throgg's Neck area,
overlooking Long Island Sound. ** Attorneys John Wells and George
Washington Strong become partners, forming what will become Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft. ** Cadwaller D. Colden is appointed mayor for
each of the next three years. ** Sea captain Israel Collins
retires and becomes a shipping merchant. ** The Black Ball Line
begins the first regularly scheduled voyages to Liverpool, England.
State
James Roosevelt buys a tract of land in Hyde Park. ** Freight
express owner William G. Fargo is born in Pompey. ** The first
printing press in Cattaraugus County. ** The steamboat
<italic>Ontario</italic> begins regular visits out of Carthage for
Ogdensburg and Lewiston. ** Governor De Witt Clinton buys 1,000
acres at Chadwick's Bay (Dunkirk), lays out a town. The name is changed
to Garnsey's Bay after the land agent for the purchase Daniel G.
Garnsey. ** The first locks on the Seneca Canal are opened,
bypassing the falls of the Seneca River. ** Construction begins
on Buffalo's South Pier, into Lake Erie. ** During the six-month
shipping season an average of fifteen boats a day sail down the St.
Lawrence River. ** Pioneering ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan is
born.
Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester moves to Rochesterville from Wesrt Bloomfield. =20
** Construction begins to carry the Erie Canal through the city's
Irondequoit Valley. ** Abelard Reynolds holds the first Methodist
services in the city. He is named alderman of the first ward ** =20
Band musicians become too drunk to rehearse. ** The town exports
26,000 barrels of flour. ** Saint Luke's Episcopal Church is
formed. ** The Baptists begin meeting, informally. ** The
Phoenix mill is rebuilt.
<bold>1819</bold>
Jan 4 =09
Martin Van Buren has William Thompson nominated as speaker of the State
Senate.
=46eb 13=09
A bill enabling Missouri to draft a constitution and prepare for
statehood is introduced in the House. New York State's James Tallmadge
proposes an amendment to limit slavery in Missouri.=20
=46eb 15 =09
Martin Van Buren's wife Hannah dies of tuberculosis.
Apr 7 =09
The State Legislature establishes the Board of Agriculture.
May 31 =09
Poet Walt Whitman is born in West Hills, Long Island.
June =09
Charles Butler becomes a clerk in the Albany law office of Martin Van
Buren.=20
Aug 1 =09
Author Herman Melville is born on Pearl Street in New York City.
Oct 22 =09
The Erie Canal opens between Rome and Utica when the canal boat
<italic>The Chief Engineer </italic>arrives in Rome, after a four-hour
trip.
December=09
Van Buren and William L. Marcy write a recommendation of Rufus King's
reelection to the State Senate, and launch an attack against Governor
Clinton.
State
Utica has 400 houses. ** Frederick Follett is apprenticed to his
brother Oran as a printer on Batavia's <italic>Spirit of the
Times</italic>. ** Erastus Shepard begins publishing Steuben
County's <italic>Western Republican</italic>. ** A brick
courthouse is built at Angelica. ** Deeds are issued for property
on Geneva's Pulteney Street, ranging from No. 388 through No. 402. =20
** Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett begin canning fish. ** Van
Buren meets with Vice-President Tompkins to plan strategy for running
Tompkins as governor for a second time.</fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>
Rochesterville - The city hires its first policeman. ** A log
bridge across the Genesee River gorge at the intersecting glacial
ridge, the future Ridge Road, opens. ** Moses Dyer opened s a
chandlery. ** Spring floods again damage the business
district.</fontfamily>
David Minor
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716 264-0423
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The Department of Special Collections at the syracuse University
Libraries has established their mirror site fof the gerrit Smith Virtual
Museum. Smith's papers are held there, and the site includes a summary
listing of over 600 items from that collection. The Syracuse University
site is at :
http://web.syr.edu/~speccoll/smith/index.htm
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Did you know that Rochester had a
one-line subway until about 1954, and that
it's route is now part of the I-90/490
corridor? I saw a documentary on it a
month or two ago. A real little commuter
line.
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>NOTE: As we move further on in New
York history the amount of information increases greatly. This seems to
me to be a good time to cut back the weekly range from five years to
four years. It will slow us down a bit but will also, I hope, help
prevent information overload. Next week we'll cover 1825-1828.
Thanks so much for your continued interest and feedback,
David
<bold>1820</bold>
Jan 26 =09
New York State's J. W. Taylor proposes a amendment to the Maine
statehood bill, prohibiting slavery in Missouri.
Apr 21 =09
The <italic>Lion of the West</italic> leaves Rochester, the first canal
boat from there to Utica, on the Erie Canal.
May =09
The section of the Erie Canal between Utica and the Seneca River is
opened for public use.
Jul 1 =09
The first toll is collected on the Erie Canal.
August<bold> =09
</bold>Martin Van Buren becomes a major investor in the <italic>Albany
Argus</italic>.=20
Aug 20 =09
A meeting is held at Canandaigua's Mill's Hotel to discuss the building
of a canal linking Canandaigua Lake with the Erie Canal. John C.
Spencer, James D. Bemis, Asa Stanley, Dudley Marvin, andWilliam H.
Adams are appointed to study a route.
Sep 20 =09
Rochester's Methodist Episcopal Church opens. Abelard Reynolds is named
first trustee.
October<bold> </bold>=09
=46ranklin Cowdery begins publishing the Angelica
<italic>Republican</italic>.
Nov 13 =09
The Hudson River freezes over at Albany.
Dec 21 =09
The Canandigua Lake canal committee recommends a 19 1/2-mile route that
would require 23 locks and cost $68,000. The Ontario Canal Company is
formed.
City
Diarist, attorney and music lover George Templeton Strong is born. =20
** The ship of the line <italic>Ohio </italic> is launched at
Brooklyn Navy Yard. ** Steamship service to New Orleans begins.
State
De Witt Clinton wins the governorship, but with a Bucktail (Republican)
legislature. ** Theodore S. Fayton hires John Butterfield as a
driver for Utica's J. Parker and Company stage line. ** A
lighthouse is erected on Dunkirk's Point Gratiot. ** Vermont
native Sewell Newhouse moves to the New York woods to become a trapper.
** Joseph Cox begins operating a ferry on the Genesee River near
Rush. ** Dr. T. Romeyn Beck conducts a geological and
agricultural survey of Albany County, the first such survey in the
state. ** Onondaga County area white population is over fifty
people per square mile. ** Samuel Wilkinson has a pier built at
Buffalo's Buffalo Creek (later the Buffalo River). ** The
approximate date Geneva's Ludlow House is built, at 388 Pulteney
Street. Federal row houses are also built at 394, 398, 400 and 402
Pulteney this year. ** The Genesee River bridge at Carthage
collapses. ** Carthage landing ships 67,468 bushels of flour,
5,310 barrels of pearl and pot ash, 26,743 barrels of beef and pork,
and 709 barrels of whiskey, along with other goods, on 316 vessels. =20
** Three dry seasons reduce the clearance over the Genesee River
sandbar from twelve to six feet.
Albany
Population reaches 13,000. ** The Ministry building at the
Watervliet Shaker colony is built.
Rochester
The Eagle Hotel replaces the Ensworth Tavern. ** Court Street is
extended. ** Population reaches 1,502.
<bold>1821</bold>
Jan 12 =09
The state legislature begins purging Federalists from the state
government.=20
Jan 17 =09
Governor Clinton accuses Martin Van Buren of bartering states rights
for patronage in Washington.
Jan 25 =09
Temperatures in New York City drop to -14=B0. Thousands walk from Jersey
City, New Jersey, to Manhattan on the frozen ice on the Hudson River.
=46eb 2 =09
A Bucktail caucus nominates Van Buren for the U. S. Senate.
=46eb 6 =09
The New York legislature elects Van Buren to the Senate.
Mar 31 =09
The state legislature incorporates the Ontario Canal Company.
May 23 =09
Ontario Canal Company commissioners N. Gorham, Z. Seymour, Asa Stanley,
P. P. Bates, and William H. Adams open the books for subscriptions, at
Coe's Hotel in Canandaigua.
Jun 12 =09
Ontario Canal Company subscriptions reach $20,000.
Aug 30 =09
The state constitutional convention begins meeting, in Albany.
Oct 26 =09
Joseph Ellicott, Resident-Agent for Batavia's Holland Land Office,
resigns due to ill health and increasing criticism of his performance.
City
Wealthy alderman Stephen Allen becomes the city's first elected mayor,
serving three one-year terms. ** The city is granted jurisdiction
over underwater land off the Battery, to a distance of 600 feet. **=20
Express riders service begins to Boston. ** Norwegian religious
dissidents Cleng Peerson and Knud Olson Eide arrive.
State
The towns of Almond and Independence are split off from Alfred. ** =20
The Seneca Canal is completed. ** Monroe and Livingston
counties are carved out of Genesee County. Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
is named clerk of Monroe County. ** Erie County is created out of
Niagara County. ** Timothy Dwight's <italic>Travels in New
England and New York, 1796-1815</italic> is published, posthumously.
Albany
The Albany Female Academy is incorporated.
Erie Canal
Construction at Rochesterville is completed. The stretch between Utica
and High Falls is also completed. ** Canvass White recommends
running the canal on the northern side of the Mohawk River, in the
Schenectady-to-Albany portion.
<bold>1822</bold>
Jan 22 =09
The Albany <italic>Argus</italic> publishes all of the correspondence
in the uproar over Federalist Solomon van Rensselaer's appointment as
the Albany postmaster.
=46ebruary=09
John Butterfield marries Malinda Harriet Baker, in Utica.
Mar 8 =09
Rochester civic leader Edwin S. Hayward is born in Charlton,
Massachusetts, to future Brighton pioneer Nathaniel Hayward.
Mar 18 =09
Joseph Yates wins the Republican nomination for governor.
Apr 29 =09
Montour fruit farmer George C. Wickham is born in Hector, to Mr. and
Mrs. William Wickham.
Oct 29 =09
The first boat with a cargo of Rochester flour leaves for Little Falls,
via the Erie Canal.
City
The office of the mayor becomes an elective position. ** The
=46ulton Fish Market is completed.
State
Chili township is created out of Riga township. ** The first
printing presses in Chemung, Niagara and Orleans counties. ** A
huge tree in Silver Creek is blown down in a storm. It will be hollowed
out and have a room made in it. ** The total value of shipments
out of the Genesee River reaches $500,000. ** Erastus Shepard
ceases publication of t=00=00<italic>=07=BFstern Republican</italic>, sends =
his
materials to Elmira and takes a position as foreman at James Bogart's
office in Geneva. ** The Angelica <italic>Republican</italic>
ceases publication. ** Another treaty with the Onondaga reduces
the size of their reservation a third time. ** Master Masons
Bruster & Allen build the Brethren's Shop and Sisters' Workshop at the
Shaker colony at Watervliet (Albany). ** Newly appointed Le Roy
land agent Jacob Le Roy, son of the former agent Herman Le Roy,
enlarges the land office. It will one day become Le Roy House. ** =20
Gideon Granger, Postmaster General underJefferson and Madison, dies in
Canandaigua. ** The legislature assumes the responsibility for
appointing the Secretary of State. ** Charles Butler becomes
deputy clerk of the State Senate. ** The Champlain Canal is
extended through the village of Waterford.
Buffalo
South Pier, into Lake Erie, is completed. ** Black Rock begins
building the Bird Island Pier into the Niagara River.
Erie Canal
The packet <italic>Myron Holley</italic> arrives in Bushnell's Basin,
south of Rochester. The town of Fairport is created on that spot. =20
** A dam is constructed on Schoharie Creek at Fort Hunter to create
a slack water section where Erie Canal boats could be towed across the
creek. Lock number 20 is completed nearby. The canal is opened to
Schenectady ** The decision is made to run the canal on the
northern side of the Mohawk River, in the Schenectady-to-Albany
portion.
Rochestervillle
The first court house is built. ** The village's population
reaches 3,130. ** Seven year-old John S. Wilson arrives with
his family from Massachusetts. ** Stonemason William Morgan
arrives to work on an aqueduct. ** Trustees levy an annual
license fee on gambling locations.
<bold>1823</bold>
Jan 15 =09
Geneva diarist Josephine Matilda deZeng is born.
Mar 3 =09
Moncrief's British hit <italic>Tom and Jerry; or, Life in
London</italic> opens at New York'sPark Theatre.
Apr 23 =09
New York State charters the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
June<bold> </bold>=09
The Baltimore-Conewago Canal commissioners leave Baltimore to meet with
De Witt Clinton in New York City. They hire James Geddes as their canal
director. From there they continue to Albany and take the Erie Canal to
Cayuga Lake. They take asteamboat to Ithaca and travel overland to the
Susquehanna River. Their efforts are for nothing, their canal is not
built.
September=09
A horse-car railroad opens between Rochester and the Genesee River
landing at Carthage. =20
Sep 10 =09
Lands formerly belonging to Mary Jemison, the "White Woman of the
Genesee", are put up for sale.
October =09
David Stanhope Bates' aqueduct is constructed to carry the Erie Canal
over the Genesee River at Rochesterville.
City
Attorney John Wells, co-founder of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft,
dies.
State
A man with a slashed throat in Parma becomes Monroe County's first
official murder victim. ** The first printing press in Yates
County. ** The total value of shipments out of the Genesee River
reaches $807,000. ** The top floor of a Syracuse tavern is
converted into a stage. ** Wayne County is formed. ** The
Waldron house in Rensselaerville is built. ** The Secretary of
State has Superintendent of Schools added to his responsibilities. =20
** William Seward moves from the town of Florida to Auburn to
become Judge Elijah Miller's junior partner. ** William B.
Rochester is named first circuit judge of the eight district. ** =20
A triple lock is built on the Champlain Canal at Whitehall. ** =20
Painter Susan Catherine (Moore Waters) is born in Binghamton. ** =20
Sewell Newhouse of Oneida perfects the steel trap. ** =20
Historian-physician William Seaver interviews Mary Jemison. ** =20
James Fenimore Cooper writes his first Leatherstocking novel,
<italic>The Pioneers</italic>. ** Civil War adjutant general
Lorenzo Thomas graduates from West Point. ** Civil War
photographer Matthew B.Brady is born in Warren County.
Batavia,
Batavia becomes a village. ** The Eagle Tavern is built on Main
Street.
Erie Canal
The canal reaches Albany. Brockport becomes the temporary western
terminus. ** Genesee Valley business interests petition the New
York legislature for a valley canal to connect the Erie Canal with the
Allegheny River near Olean.
Rochester
The village celebrates the opening of the Erie Canal. ** The
first pier of the new aqueduct is carried away by spring floods. **
Willis Kempshall becomes a partner of Ira West in a dry goods store.=20
** The village drops property-owning as a requisite for voting. =20
** The First Baptist Church is built. ** The village on the
east bank of the Genesee River is incorporated into the village limits.
** Geologist Amos Eaton makes a study of the Rochester gorge of
the Genesee River. ** Construction is begun on Washington Street
for the home of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. ** New Englander
Nathaniel Hayward settles in the town of Brighton and buys seventy
acres.
<bold>1824</bold>
January<bold> =09
</bold>James Fenimore Cooper writes his first sea romance <italic>The
Pilot</italic>, to demonstrate what Sir Walter Scott's <italic>The
Pirate</italic> might have been like if written by a seaman.
Jan 24 =09
At an Ontario Canal Company meeting at Canandaiguas Mead's Hotel, nine
directors are elected. The Canal is never built.
Mar 1 =09
Construction begins on New Jersey's Morris Canal, to link New York City
with the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.
Mar 29 =09
The New York House of Refuge, for New York City juvenile delinquents,
is incorporated.
Apr 2 =09
50,000 New York City inhabitants come out to see murderer John Johnson
hanged for the killing of tourist James Murray.
Apr 3 =09
Samuel Young is nominated by a state caucus for governor.
Apr 12 =09
De Witt Clinton is deposed as an Erie Canal commissioner.
Apr 22 =09
A home at 286 Water Street in New York City is the first house to be
lighted by gas.
May<bold> =09
</bold>James Fenimore Cooper moves his family from 3 Beach Street, New
York City, to 345 Greenwich Street.
Jul 23 =09
Western New York land agent Paolo Busti dies at the age of 74.
August =09
Cooper receives an honorary M. A. from Columbia University.
Aug 1 =09
State electors are selected in Utica to nominate the governor and
lieutenant governor.
Aug 14 =09
The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in New York with his son George
Washington Lafayette, for a tour of the nation.
Oct 26 =09
The cutting of the western end of the Erie Canal at Lockport, to Lake
Erie, is completed.
November=09
De Witt Clinton is again elected governor.
Nov 5 =09
The Rensselaer School of Theoretical and Practical Science (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute) is founded in Troy - the first U. S.
engineering college.
Dec 18 =09
New York City mayor Philip Hone decides to back the Delaware and Hudson
Canal.
City
The new Mystic,Connecticut, schooner <italic>Harriet</italic>, carrying
a cargo of naval stores from Plymouth, North Carolina, on its maiden
voyage, is destroyed by fire in New York Harbor.
State=20
John Beardslee, founder of Beardslee City, dies. ** Syracuse is
incorporated as a city. ** Erie Canal construction severs Utica's
water supply aqueduct. ** The approximate year editor Benjamin
Smead turns Bath's <italic>Farmers' Advocate and Steuben
Advertiser</italic> over to his sons. ** A. N. Phelps begins
publishing the Canandaigua <italic>Republican</italic>. He soon sells
the paper to Thomas B. Barnum who runs it for a short time. ** The
Naples <italic>Village Record</italic> begins publication. ** =20
Professor Amos Eaton's report on the rock formations along the route of
the future Erie Canal, commissioned by Stephen Van Rennselaer, is
published. ** Orleans County is created out of north central
Genesee Country. ** Hector pioneer Mrs. William Wickham dies at
the age of 82. ** Charles Butler is admitted to the bar, begins
practicing in Lyons. He will move to Geneva after a few months. ** =20
Wine is first produced in the Chautauqua region. ** James
Seaver, MD's <italic>The Life of Mary Jemison</italic>, from her own
words, is published. ** James Fenimore Cooper accompanies four
English noblemen (including future prime minister Edward Stanley) on a
tour of Saratoga, Ballston, Lake George, Ticonderoga and Lake
Champlain. While in Little Falls he decides to write <italic>Last of
the Mohicans</italic>. ** The 7th Regiment of the New York State
Militia takes the title National Guards. ** Evangelist Charles G.
=46inney begins his career, in western New York. ** The steamboat
<italic>Martha Ogden</italic> is built at Sackets Harbor, financed in
part by Rochester merchants.
Auburn
The Auburn system of prison management is implemented, ending universal
solitary confinement. ** William Henry Seward marries Frances
Miller, daughter of his senior law partner Judge Elijah Miller. Miller
gives them a house.
Michigan
Pioneers from Virginia and New York found Ann Arbor.
Rochester
The village gets its first bank and theater. ** A visitor is
robbed of $1,800 at a gambling shop. ** St. Luke'sEpiscopal
Church is built. ** The wooden Main Street bridge across the
Genesee River is replaced by a new wooden one on stone piers. ** =20
Theaqueduct is completed. ** Colonel Nathaniel Rochester's
Washington Stree home is completed. He is named a subscription manager
for the new Bank of Rochester.</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
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Dear subscribers:
A friend has a 19th or early 20th century roll-up wall map of Chenango
County which she would like to have repaired or conserved. It is about
5-1/2 feet square and in fair condition, but in some places the paper is
starting to flake from the cloth.
Does anyone know where a private individual can take such a map for
repair or conservation?
Thank you in advance, Lester E. Hendrix (list or [log in to unmask];
snail mail PO Box 711, Schoharie NY 12157-0711; phone 518-295-7341)
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Hello!!
Have been following, with great interest and saving, the NY history posted
by David Minor. Many thanks, David.
However, the latest posting for 1820-1824 was chopped off about half way
thru' - at Oct 1822 -just after the opening of Fulton Fish Market (a spot I
remember with nostalgia).
Did anyone else receive the complete posting??
Many thanks to one and all.
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There are not many conservators that have the facilities to conserve a
large map. Here are the names of several reputable conservators.
Depending on the condition of the map, this could be an expensive project.
If your friend would like to call me I would be happy to speak to them and
offer any advice I can. My telephone number is 518-474-6971
Barbara Lilley
New York State Conservation/Preservation Program
Northeast Document Conservation Center
100 Brickstone Square
Andover, MA 01810-1428
508-470-1010
Clement Art Conservation
Daniel Clement
5027 Dubois Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-387-9608
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-545-0613
Nelly Ballofet
253 Illington Road
Ossining, NY 10562
914-941-8166
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Anne & Les Hendrix wrote:
> Dear subscribers:
> A friend has a 19th or early 20th century roll-up wall map of Chenango
> County which she would like to have repaired or conserved. It is about
> 5-1/2 feet square and in fair condition, but in some places the paper is
> starting to flake from the cloth.
> Does anyone know where a private individual can take such a map for
> repair or conservation?
> Thank you in advance, Lester E. Hendrix (list or [log in to unmask];
> snail mail PO Box 711, Schoharie NY 12157-0711; phone 518-295-7341)
>
>
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Is there any information on sanitariums in Westchester county at the turn
of the century? I'm also interested in finding out about dotors in
Westchester and New York City at that time. Any hints?
Barbara Taylor
Original Cataloger
340 Myron Taylor Hall
Cornell University Law Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
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I have run acorss a picture in Valentine"s Manual" of an executin of
Negor on the commons from the 1750s -- so it is entitled. Does anyone
know anything about this pictuire and its authenticity, if any.?
Thank you
Howard Rock [log in to unmask]
Florida International University
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Some months ago there was some discussion on the list about women's
suffrage. I do not recall who was involved nor do I know if this
will be of use but it is so interesting I think it bears posting.
I found the article, which is reproduced in its entirety below,
in the 29 October 1800 issue of the Norristown (Pa.) Gazette:
FEMALE ELECTORS
Single Females in the State of New-Jersey, possessed of a certain
property, and having paid taxes, are entitled to vote at elections.
Letters from Bordentown state that a party of 40 ladies went from one
house to exercise the important previlege [sic] of voting -- Of these
amiable Patriots ten only voted for the Jacobin ticket.
The editor, a staunch Federalist, apparently had no problem with
certain women voting, granted they were not Jeffersonians!
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Can anyone direct me to source material on child labor in 19th c.
Dutchess County? (I already have census material on that subject.)
Personal narratives, photographs, etc. would be great. Also, information
on iron mines in Dutchess County -- again, pictures, diaries, etc. would
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I sent a similar message that had numerous grammatical mistakes owing to a
problem in my E-mail system and I was unable to correct them. I apologize.
To repeat, there is an illustration in Valentine's Manual of an execution of
a "Negro" on the Commons. Does anyone know anything about this illustration?
Thank you
Howard Rock
Florida International University
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I suggest that Barbara Taylor contact Kathleen LaFrank at the New York State
Historic Preservation Office (518-237-8643 x261) and talk to her about New
York Hospital's Bloomingdale Asylum. It was nominated to the National
Register a few years ago and generated a good deal of material on the
history of the asylum and its local and theoretical contexts.
Neil Larson
Hudson Valley Study Center
SUNY New Paltz
>
> Is there any information on sanitariums in Westchester county at the turn
> of the century? I'm also interested in finding out about dotors in
> Westchester and New York City at that time. Any hints?
>
>
> Barbara Taylor
> Original Cataloger
> 340 Myron Taylor Hall
> Cornell University Law Library
> Ithaca, NY 14853
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What significance, if any, did HART ISLAND have during the Civil
War? My GGrandfather was "mustered in" the NY 6th Cavalry at
Brooklyn, NY, but there is a notation on his military record of
"HART ISLAND". I know this island is not inhabited now, but was
this an assembly point or possibly an area for training?
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The Cornell Medical Hospital or School Archives, in NYC, might be a good
information source on Bloomingdale and NYC doctors.
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At one Point the Upper NYC area 101st-125th was called Bloomingdale would
any one be able to give me more information about this area and why it was
called Bloomingdale which I now belive to be called Harlem..
Thanking you in advance
Geraldine Ryerson Kanner
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Isn't it because the Bloomingdale family had their estate up there?
Before Broadway was Broadway, it was called "The Bloomingdale Road". Then, wgen
Broadway was extended, it followed this route.
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At one Point the Upper NYC area 101st-125th was called Bloomingdale would
any one be able to give me more information about this area and why it was
called Bloomingdale which I now belive to be called Harlem..
Thanking you in advance
Geraldine Ryerson Kanner
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Look up Bloomingdale in the NYC Encyclopedia.
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>What significance, if any, did HART ISLAND have during the Civil
>War? My GGrandfather was "mustered in" the NY 6th Cavalry at
>Brooklyn, NY, but there is a notation on his military record of
>"HART ISLAND". I know this island is not inhabited now, but was
t>his an assembly point or possibly an area for training?
To which I replied as follows:
"The Department of Correction maintains and operates the City Cemetery,
commonly called Potter's Field, on Hart Island, the Bronx, in Long Island
Sound. Burials are done with inmate labor, under supervision of Correction
staff. Inmates are paid between 25 and 35 cents per hour. The supervised
inmate work details are bused from Rikers Island and ferried from City
Island on weekdays to perform the burials, disinterments and maintenance
tasks.The Island is 101 acres, measuring approximately one mile long and
one-eighth to one-third of a mile wide. It is maintained by the Department of
Correction. Hart Island is not open to the public.
"Hart Island was purchased by the City in 1868 from the Hunter family of the
Bronx for $75,000. The following year it was established as the City's public
cemetery for the burial of those persons who died indigent or whose bodies
went unclaimed. In the first year, 1,875 burials were performed.
"In 1865, as the Civil War was ending, the Federal government used the Island
as a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. During a yellow fever epidemic in
1870, a part of the Island was used to house persons confined to isolation..
.. . "
The above is from the Hart Island page of the Department of Correction's web
pages. It can be accessed under "History" or "Overview" from:
www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doc/home.html
Thomas C. McCarthy
Director of Editorial/Communication Services
NYC Dept. of Correction
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P.S. Not in the web page history on Hart Island is a fact that my boss, the
Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Thomas Antenen, tells me that he
came across in researching Hart Island: That was indeed used for training
purposes prior to its use as a POW camp, but what contingent used it that way
and for how long or who commanded it he doesn.t recall finding.
Perhaps the other subscribers on the list might be interested in the response
too?
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Jan 3
Troy, New York's Rensselaer School of Theoretical and Practical Science
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; RPI) opens.
Jan 19
Thomas Kensett takes out a U. S. patent in New York City for a tin
can.
March
Sir John Franklin reaches New York and departs to travel overland to
the Mackenzie RIver and Great Bear Lake.
Apr 9
New York State authorizes $2000 annually for the New York House of
Refuge.
May
Batavia newspaper owner Oran Follett moves to Buffalo, leaving his
younger brother Frederick as publisher of the <italic>Spirit of the
Times</italic>. ** Bricklayer William Morgan is made a Royal
Arch Mason, in Le Roy.
May 25
The steamboat <italic>Washington</italic> makes its inaugural New York
City-to-Stonington, Connecticut,run, with E. S. Bunker as captain.
June
The Marquis de Lafayette visits Geneva.
Jul 4
Construction begins on Connecticut's Farmington Canal, from
Massachusetts to Long Island Sound, along the Connecticut River.
Jul 6
Governor De Witt Clinton breaks ground for the Miami and Erie Canal.
Jul 13
Construction on the Delaware and Hudson Canal begins, at Wurtsboro.
Oct 10
Geneva lawyer Charles Butler marries Eliza A. Ogden of Walton. They
will buy water lot 21 this year.
Oct 15
De Witt Clinton's party leaves Albany on the Erie Canal.
Oct 25
Clinton's party arrives in Buffalo. ** The first Erie Canal boats
leave Buffalo - destination New York City.
Oct 26
Clinton officially opens the Erie Canal.
Nov 4
The Clinton flotilla reaches New York City. ** Dissatisfied
members of the Academy of Arts found the New York Drawing Association.
City
Lorenzo Delmonico begins his career as a restaurateur. ** The
House of Refuge is founded as a reformatory for juveniles.x **
Gioacchino Rossini's opera <italic>The Barber of Seville </italic>opens
at the Park Theater. ** Bookbinder Christian Brown opens a store
at 211 Water Street. ** Mayor Philip Hone buys two of Thomas
Cole's Hudson River landscapes for his collection. Asher Brown Durand
and Cole form the beginning of the Hudson River School of painting.
** State adjutant general William Paulding, Jr. Is elected mayor for
the next year. ** 52 Norwegian Quakers arrive aboard the ship
<italic>Restoration</italic>. ** William Cullen Bryant drops the
practice of law to became coeditor of the <italic>New York
Review</italic>. ** James Cooper publishes <italic>Lionel
Lincoln</italic>. It is a commercial failure. He forms a friendship
with artist Samuel F. B. Morse.
State
Gypsum is discovered in Oakfield. ** Two entrepreneurs buy the
remains of Silver Creek's giant tree, take it on a tour via the Erie
Canal. ** Proprietors of the settlement of Dunkirk sell half
their interest to Fredonia entrepreneur Walter Smith ** Syracuse
pioneer Ephraim Webster dies in Tuscarora at the age of 72. **
TheSeneca Lock Navigation Company petitions the state legislature to
purchase the canal. The state will do so. ** The village of
Syracuse is incorporated. ** Black Rock's 6500-foot-long Bird
Island Pier into the Niagara River is completed. ** Lafayette
visits Albany. He has his portrait painted; it will hang in the
Executive Chamber of the State House. ** Rensselaerville's Wands
house is built. ** Brockport novelist Mary Jane Holmes is born in
Massachusetts. ** The <italic>Enterprise</italic> becomes the
first steamboat launched in the Finger Lakes. ** Le Roy's Eagle
Hotel opens. ** Population: Buffalo - c. 2300; Batavia - 3,352;
Rochester - c. 5000. ** Mormonism founder Joseph Smith goes to
work for Joseph Stoal in Chenango County, soon goes toHarmony,
Pennsylvania, with him to seek silver.
Erie Canal
John Rutherford's <italic>Facts and observations in relation to the
origin and completion of the Erie canal</italic>, is published by N. B.
Holmes in New York City.
Geneva
A Federal-style home is built at 543 South Main Street in Geneva. **
Pultney Park, the town square, is conveyed to the village.
Rochester
The Marquis de Lafayette visits the city and is entertained at the
Mansion House (Christopher's Tavern). ** Construction begins on a
house for hardware merchant Ebenezer Watts. ** Elisha Johnson,
Josiah Bissell and others found the Rochester Canal and Railway
Company. ** William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll file a quit
claim for Mason (Front) Street, with lawyer John Mastick, to facilitate
the construction of a retaining wall along the Genesee River. The
street is moved to the west.
1826
Feb 5
Buffalo area lawyer Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers.
Feb 26
<italic>New Yorker Staats-Zeitung</italic> publisher Oswald Ottendorfer
is born in Moravia.
Mar 14
The U. S. agrees, after much controversy, to send two delegates to a
congress of the new Latin American republics, to be held in Panama,
Colombia. One is New York State judge William B. Rochester.
May
James Cooper is awarded a silver medal from the Corporation of the City
of New York.
May 14
Eaton's RPI expedition reaches Rochester.
June
Simon Bolivar convenes an inter-American congress in Panama. One U. S.
delegate dies en route and the other, William B. Rochester, arrives
after it's ended. ** James Fenimore Cooper and his family sail
for Europe, where he will remain for the next seven years.
July
A gathering of Scots clans is held in Caledonia.
Jul 10
Anti-Constitutionalist Luther Martin dies in New York City at the age
of 78.
Aug 19
Joseph Ellicott, former Resident-Agent for western New York's Holland
Land Office, despondent and ill, takes his own life, at Bellevue
Hospital in New York City, at the age of 65.
Sep 10
William Morgan is arrested in Batavia to protect him from a Freemason
mob accusing him of revealing Masonic secrets.
Sep 12
Morgan is taken from jail in Canandaigua, vanishes.
City
The opera company of tenor Manuel del Popolo Vincente Garcia brings
Italian opera to the city, performing at the Park Theater. ** The
National Academy of Design opens, with Samuel F. B. Morse as its first
president. The U. S. buys land on the Throgg's Neck area overlooking
Long Island Sound from William Bayard, for future fortifications. **
Assistant Alderman Philip Hone is elected mayor for the next year.
** The city is granted control over underwater lands as far north as
Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River. ** Author James Cooper
</fontfamily>
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He's given a farewell dinner by New York's Bread and Cheese Club. **
William Cullen Bryant becomes editor of the New York <italic>Evening
Post</italic>.
State
De Witt Clinton is returned to the governorship, defeating
Dewmocratcandidate William B. Rochester.
Saratoga Springs isincorporated. ** Caledonia's first post
office, bank and apothecary shop is built. It will later house the
public library. ** Rensselaerian School (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) professor Amos Eaton leads a geological expedition through
the western part of the state aboard the canal boat
<italic>LaFayette</italic>. They name the town of Gasport when they
discover coal gas from a spring.] ** Stephen Van Rensselaer and
other investors buy out the Cohoes Manufacturing Company and form the
Cohoes Company. ** E. M. Perkins begins publishing the Le Roy
<italic>News-Gazette</italic>. ** U. S. Secret Service founder
Lafayette C. Baker is born in Stafford.
Rochester
Monroe County's almshouse is built on South Avenue.
1827
Jan 18
Mormonism founder Joseph Smith marries Emma Hale in South Bainbridge.
Feb 7
Madame Francisquay Hutin introduces toe dancing during her ballet debut
at New York City's Bowery Theater. Many are shocked at the amount of
calf displayed.
Mar 16
John Russworm and Samuel Cornish publish <italic>Freedom's
Journal</italic>, the first black newspaper, in New York City.
Jul 4
New York State officially abolishes slavery. 10,000 slaves are freed.
Sep 8
The <italic>Michigan</italic>, with live animals aboard, is sent over
Niagara Falls as a stunt.
Sep 22
The date that Joseph Smith says the Book of Mormon was shown to him by
an angel near Palmyra.
December
New York City lawyer and social arbiter Samuel Ward McAllister is born
in Savannah, Georgia.
City
Gas lights are installed on Broadway, between City Hall and Whitehall
Street. ** Former mayor William Paulding is re-elected, serves
two more one-year terms. ** A company is formed to build a canal
across the northern end of Manhattan, but the plan will be abandoned.
State
The slave Isabella Van Wagener is freed by the state's Emancipation
Act. She will take the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. ** Archibald
McIntyre, David Henderson, Duncan McMartin and others discover the
largest deposit of iron ore on the known continent, in the Adirondacks,
purchase the land for an iron works. ** A tavern is built in
Caledonia. ** The Angelica <italic>Republican</italic> is revived
as the Allegany <italic>Republican</italic>, with Samuel P. Hull as its
publisher. ** W. W. Phelps begins publishing the Anti-masonic
Canandaigua <italic>Phoenix</italic>. R. Royce soon buys it and changes
the name to the <italic>Freeman</italic>. ** Marine and
missionary Jonathan Goble is born in Wayne. ** Troy mayor and
businessman Richard Hart has a Federal-style mansion built (later the
Hart-Cluett Mansion, after that, home to the Rensselaer County
Historical Society). ** Jeffersonian homes are built at 584 and
574 South Main Street in Geneva. ** Leonidas Lafayette Polk
graduates from West Point.
Albany
While drilling for water for a brewery on Ferry Street, a mineral
spring is discovered.
Le Roy
Pioneer Charles Wilbor moves to Milan, Ohio. ** The first state
convention of the Anti Masonic Party meets.
Rochester
The population nears 10,000. ** A platform is built over the
Genesee River to provide space for a farmer's market. ** The house
of hardware merchant Ebenezer Watts is completed. ** Alexander
Street and Pennsylvania Street (South Union Street) are completed
betweenthe Erie Canal and East Avenue.
1828
Feb 7
Civil War officer Ely Parker, author of the terms of surrender at
Appomattox, is born on the Tonawanda Reservation in Indian Falls.
Feb 11
Governor De Witt Clinton dies of a heart attack, in Albany.
Apr 9
The Albany Female Seminary is incorporated.
May 19
William Ladd founds the American Peace Society, in New York City.
Oct 16
The packet <italic>Orange</italic> leaves Kingston - the first boat on
the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
Oct 18
The <italic>Orange </italic> arrives at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to
begin the transportation of coal from Pennsylvania fields to Eastern
industrial cities.
Dec 10
The first shipment of Pennsylvania anthracite from the Delaware and
Hudson Canal reaches New </fontfamily>
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City
All of the existing Broadway is lit by gaslights. ** The New York
Drawing Association is renamed the National Academy of Design. **
Long Island Quaker Elias Hicks forms a conservative faction separate
from the more unorthodox New York City Quakers (closder to traditional
Christianity). His followers become known as Hicksites. ** The
city's statutes are revised. ** The city's jurisdiction over
underwater lands is extended.
State
Future philanthropist Ezra Cornell moves from the Bronx to Ithaca.
** The first printing press in Wyoming County. ** The Rogers
brothers launch their first schooner, the <italic>Jeanette</italic>, on
the lower Genesee River. ** James D. Bemis sells the
<italic>Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser</italic> to Morse and
Harocy. ** Hamilton College tutor William Kirkland marries writer
Caroline Stansbury and they move to Geneva to found the Domestic
School. ** The Cayuga and Seneca Canal is completed, linking
Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal. ** Buffalo area lawyer
Millard Fillmore is elected to the state legislature. **
Kingston's Rondout district is created by the directors of the
Delaware & Hudson Canal as the eastern terminus of their canal. **
Jefferson Davis enters West Point Military Academy.
Theater
New York comic actor Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice introduces his new
character Jim Crow in Louisville, Kentucky. He performs in blackface
and calls the entertainment a minstrel show.
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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I am not sure this is what I am trying to find out and who the Bloomingdale
Famly Was
Geri
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As I understand it the Bloomingdale Asylum was at the present day site of
Columbia University. There is still one building remaining on
campus. It was restored a couple of years ago when I was working at
Columbia. I believe the building is now the French House. It stands out
on campus because it is an orange brick building near the Avery Building
and looks very different from the McKim White buildings that are
predominate on the campus. That area is actually part of what is called
Morningside Heights today and not technically in Harlem.
Barbara Lilley
New York State Conservation/Preservation Program
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Geri Kanner wrote:
> At one Point the Upper NYC area 101st-125th was called Bloomingdale would
> any one be able to give me more information about this area and why it was
> called Bloomingdale which I now belive to be called Harlem..
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Geraldine Ryerson Kanner
>
>
>
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I'm trying to get some additional information on one Russell Armington,
who was a late 18th century and early 19th century shipbuilder. I am not a
relative, but a writer working on a book about shipbuilding on the Welland
Canals in the Niagara Peninsula.
Here's what I have. Armington was born about 1773 or 1774, perhaps in the
United States, perhaps elsewhere, like Britain. He died in his 64th year
August 15, 1837 in St.Catharines, Ontario and was married to Clarissa (b
c1788, d June 28, 1848, Grantham Township, Lincoln County, Ontario - now
St.Catharines). Children are unknown.
The book, Industrial Archeology In Troy, Waterford, Cohoes, Green Island
And Watervliet, complied by John G. & Diana S. Waite, Hudson-Mohawk
Industrial Gateway, Troy, New York, 1973 and 1983, says this on page 28:
"Armington & Hawkings Shipyard, 113th Street & First Avenue [Troy North]
This site is a rare survival of 18th century industry in the
Hudson-Mohawk region. Russell Armington and Esek Hawkins established a
shipyard at what is now the foot of 113th Street in Lansingburgh in the
1790s. This concern built Hudson River sloops as well as large,
ocean-going ships destined for the West Indies. The site of the yard
itself as well as this building which was both Armington's house and
busines office still remain virtually intact. The construction of the
State dam in 1823 doomed Lansignburgh as a commercial port and
shipbuilding center."
This fits in with what Armington had to say in an 1829 ad in the
St.Catharines paper advertising his shipyard here, on the First Welland
Canal. He said that he had many years experience in the ship-wright
business in various parts of the United States and Canada.
Any information, including an update on the Lansingburgh/Troy shipyard
site, would be much appreciated.
Peter D.A. Warwick
St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Bike Through The Garden Of Canada
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Just for a little trivia today, residents of the town of Schuylerville
turned down, by a wide margin, a proposal to rename the town back to it's
original of Old Saratoga. This is a small town on the Hudson River which was
founded in 1690 and was the scene of some of the action that is collectively
called the Battle Of Saratoga.
Daniel Martin
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While the media kept talking about returning to the original name of "Old
Saratoga", was it not in fact originally just "Saratoga" in the time of the
Revolution. That is how it appears on the maps of the period. So
historical accuracy would require returning it to the original name
"Saratoga" which would confuse many who were trying to get to
"Saratoga Springs". "Old Saratoga" would be, in fact, the "new" name. In
the end, I think, a name will not draw tourists. The Schuyler family
association and the historic Schuyler homestead are as historically
interesting as anything you will find on heritage trails elsewhere. This
should certainly be as good a "draw" as the old settlement's name. If
local tourism advocates feel these aren't working, I doubt a name change
will do anything.
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About 1960, Saratoga Springs was the old hotel fire center of the world.
The town was dead, and the city fathers hired John F.C. Burdis to work up
a plan to get them back into the mainstream. One of the things he ded was
to invite Ian Fleming to come for a free stay, providing he would write
about the locale. Diamons are Forever, I think, was the book, and it was
dedicated to JFCB! This gave the baths, the races, the racy element much
more publicity than anything short of a major scandal could have caused.
For all its fine qualities, Schuylerville needs media exposure, and a name
change will only make it harder to find on the maps.
Spend your money on leverage!
Karl A. Petersen, RPI'64, BArch, student of JFCBurdis
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Are you sure that the movie was "Diamonds are Forever?"
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In regard to the historical sites in Schuylerville, I have an interesting
thing to chew on. I used to be able to get La Presse, a French language
daily from Montreal, every day at the train station in Rensselaer. In one
edition, their travel section included a large write-up of the author's
visit to the Saratoga Battlefield. One of the comments made was that it was
amazing that, based on the significance of this place in American History,
how few visitors ever went there. There is something to be said for the
fact that just changing a name isn't going to get tourists. You need to
do some other stuff as well.
BTW, the French-Canadian writer raved about the site.
Daniel Martin
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Of course the Village of Schuylerville is contained within the Town of
Saratoga. So if they want to take the name, and since there is little
practical reason for the continued existence if incorporated villages in
modern day New York, I'd suggest they simply disband the village.
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And thank heavens that the townspeople had the good sense to
remember that history is not just a tourist draw and that the name
Schuylerville has more history attached to it than "Old Saratoga."
Jim Corsaro
James Corsaro
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> Just for a little trivia today, residents of the town of Schuylerville
> turned down, by a wide margin, a proposal to rename the town back to it's
> original of Old Saratoga. This is a small town on the Hudson River which was
> founded in 1690 and was the scene of some of the action that is collectively
> called the Battle Of Saratoga.
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> Daniel Martin
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Jim Corsaro wrote:
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> And thank heavens that the townspeople had the good sense to
> remember that history is not just a tourist draw and that the name
> Schuylerville has more history attached to it than "Old Saratoga."
>
> Jim Corsaro
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> James Corsaro
> Associate Librarian
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> New York State Library
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> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> (518) 474-5963
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> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > Just for a little trivia today, residents of the town of Schuylerville
> > turned down, by a wide margin, a proposal to rename the town back to it's
> > original of Old Saratoga. This is a small town on the Hudson River which was
> > founded in 1690 and was the scene of some of the action that is collectively
> > called the Battle Of Saratoga.
> >
> > Daniel Martin
> >Just wondering- Did Saratoga used to be called at any time in the early 1800's "SARATOGA
SPRINGS"? I have a reference to it ina an old letter dated in 1840's. Or- do you know
where Saratoga Springs was? (This letter referenced it being in Eastern NY.) If so
please reply. Marilyn Light.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
for the
First Annual CONFERENCE ON HUDSON VALLEY HERITAGE
to be held at the State University of New York at New Paltz
September 26 & 27, 1997
The Hudson Valley Study Center announces the beginning of an exciting annual
event for all those studying, working with and interested in the Hudson
Valley's remarkable heritage. We seek proposals for papers, presentations
and workshops that reflect new academic and professional work in the region's
natural and cultural history. We are particularly interested in receiving
proposals regarding programs and projects designed to collect,
interpret, teach or otherwise apply information on the Hudson Valley's
cultural landscape. We welcome proposals from all disciplines and viewpoints
and will organize sessions that are supportive of this diversity.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Visual aids (slides,
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LET US HEAR FROM YOU!!!
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I disagree with Bill Nech's comment that there is "little practical
reason for the continued existence of incorporated villages in modern
day New York."
He may be right in regards to towns that are densely populated and
provide city-type services but in rural areas, villages were created to
provide those services, such as water, sewer and additional police
protection, that are simply not needed on a group basis in sparsely
settled areas.
In a town of 20 or 30 square miles, where most residents live in one
square mile, two very different sets of needs exist. It is ridiculous to
think that individual water wells and septic systems are practical in
the populated area; or that a patrolman is needed to direct traffic on
Main Street when there is a funeral, police a ball game at the high
school, turn door-knobs on the stores or check parking meters.
People of the populated area should control the administration of
those services, not a town board that may consist largely of people from
the sparsely settled area.
There is little practical reason for existence of zillions of towns,
however. Schoharie County has 16 when about four would do. Towns were
established to provide the people with road maintenance and a town
justice and clerk within easy reach of horse carriages. Road maintenance
-- by far the most costly part of town expenses -- can easily be done
more efficiently by the county. With autos we can more easily reach
clerks and judges much farther from home than we could 100 years ago.
In reality, it is towns are largely unnecessary.
-- Lester
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A link to a site on The Underground Railroad in Rochester (located at
University of Rochester) has been added to the Related Links page on the
UGRR in NYS site (http://www.NYHistory.com/ugrr).
The site is coming fairly slowly, but I have received additional names
and am looking forward to more. Anyone with material for the site is
invited to email or forward hard copy to:
NY History Net
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I am attempting to locate information on Bayard's Patent (later called
the Freemason's Patent). My interest is how it got the second
appelation. I have researched the standard county histories, gazette's,
and Higgin's 1931 history of Land grants in NY. I also researched the
Bayard family and found that it was originally issued to William, sr (a
loyalist who sailed for England in 1783) was "attained" by the state in
1777, and reissued to William, Jr. (and 53 others) in 1787. At this
point the trail goes cold. I would appreciate your suggestions on how to
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No, but it was where Bond drives around in a Mustang and several scenes
are placed at the baths in the mud.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, John T. Reilly wrote:
> Are you sure that the movie was "Diamonds are Forever?"
>
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In a message dated 97-03-25 09:13:24 EST, you write:
<< ust wondering- Did Saratoga used to be called at any time in the early
1800's "SARATOGA SPRINGS"? I have a reference to it ina an old letter dated
in 1840's. Or- do you know where Saratoga Springs was? (This letter
referenced it being in Eastern NY.) If so please reply. Marilyn Light. >>
Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, eastern NY. Saratoga is a
town adjoining the city of Saratoga Springs. Schuylerville is a village in
the town of Saratoga. Us Capital District folk often just say Saratoga when
we mean Saratoga Springs.
Bill Nechamen
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On my first road trip to the Northeast in three decades, I passed through
Schuylerville and was pleased at the clear appreciation of historical
events and accessiblity of information. We were, however, stopping at
family sites, and were on a dash to picnic at the Yaddo (sad, you can
never go back) and did not stop to enjoy local history.
Karl A. Petersen
Meridian, Idaho
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In a message dated 97-03-25 09:17:47 EST, [log in to unmask] (Anne & Les
Hendrix) writes:
<<
I disagree with Bill Nech's comment that there is "little practical
reason for the continued existence of incorporated villages in modern
day New York."
He may be right in regards to towns that are densely populated and
provide city-type services but in rural areas, villages were created to
provide those services, such as water, sewer and additional police
protection, that are simply not needed on a group basis in sparsely
settled areas. >>
Well, I'll provide limited agreement with your caveat to my blanket
statement. NYS Law has a separate section for Suburban towns which are towns
with any territory located within a certain distance from a city of a certain
size. I don't recall the exact numbers. Those towns have more municipal
authority to provide urban type services. I strongly believe that there is
no need for villages within such towns. I also strongly believe that most
municipal services could/should be performed at the county level. Of course
the type of services would differ in a mostly urban county from a mostly
rural one.
My work with the state causes me to work with local governments. In most
instances, the level of government I deal with, whether it is a small village
in an urban area or a small town in a rural area, is too small to provide the
type of professional management required. This is wasteful and redundant --
providing the public with poor service at a high cost.
I will, however, grant the caveat for a village in an otherwise rural town --
although only in part. Many of the services mentioned -- water, sewer, even
police, can be provided through special taxing or revenue districts. Schools
are already funded through separate entities which don't generally conform to
municipal boundaries. There is always a concern with special districts being
unresponsive to the public. However, they can be established with public
input and election of boards by the population within their service areas.
In general, I believe that we need to look at a complete overhaul of
municipal gov't and muncipal services in NYS. We are entering the 21st
century with 19th century governmental setups.
Bill Nechamen
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Hi!
What a wonderful idea! Someone else organizing a conference that I
am interested in! Bravo!
I propose to present a program entitled "The People of Colonial
Albany: A Community History Project." My presentation would include
a musical and visual introduction to early Albany history, a
description of the Colonial Albany Social History Project - a model
community history program, a summary of accomplishements and
activities, and an invitation for people to get involved.
That could all go off in 20 minutes. But I'll focus on any part of
the above if you wish.
Actually, this note is more of an "atta boy!" and a communication
of my willingness to participate in your splendid program on the good
old HV.
Please let me know how I can tailor my proposal to be more useful.
Very best,
SB
ps those dates dont conflict with the NNP Rensselaerswyck seminar
do they? I hope not
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>From North Country Public Radio I heard that there's a move afoot to change
the name of Schuylerville *back* to Old Saratoga. When did it become
Schuylerville, tho?
Mike
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Please keep me informed. I am a history teacher at Newburgh Free Academy, not
far from New Paltz.
John Thomas
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Karl A. Petersen wrote:
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> No, but it was where Bond drives around in a Mustang and several scenes
> are placed at the baths in the mud.
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> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, John T. Reilly wrote:
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> > Are you sure that the movie was "Diamonds are Forever?"
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The book was " The Spy Who Loved Me".
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>NYNY 1829-1832
<bold>1829</bold>
Feb 27
The Albany Institute is incorporated, to promote science and art. It
merges with the Albany Lyceum of Natural History.
May
Two Utica mechanics named Rogers and Garrat devise a steam-powered
canal boat, using a tread-mounted paddle.
May 17
Former U. S. Supreme Court chief justice and New York governor John Jay
dies in his Bedford home at the age of 80.
May 18
Niblo's Garden opens at Broadway and Prince Street in New York City.
Jun 4
The mothballed <italic>Fulton II</italic> explodes in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, killing 25 people.
Sep 14
Henry James Hackett presents acrobat Peter the Antipodean at New York's
Bowery Theater.
Nov 7
Carpenter's union president Ebenezer Ford is elected to the New York
State Assembly, the first labor leader voted into public office.
Nov 13
Daredevil Sam Patch is killed jumping into the falls of the Genesee
River at Rochester.
Nov 22
Grant's Secretary of War, William Belknap is born in Newburgh.
City
Its design school is incorporated as the National Academy of Design.
** Walter Bowne is elected mayor for the next three one-year terms.
** William Cullen Bryant is promoted to editor of the New York
<italic>Evening Post</italic>. ** The Working Men's Party is
formed, lasts for two years. ** Merchant David Washington
Cincinnatus Olyphant sends missionaries David Abeel and Elijah Bridgman
to China, promising to support their efforts for a year.
State
Cornelius Vanderbilt establishes a steamboat company. ** The
state legislature passes a measure assigning the Syracuse water supply
monopoly to Captain Oliver Teall, through 1831. ** Trumbull Cary
founds Batavia's Bank of the Genesee (later M&T), the first bank west
of the Genesee River. ** Geneva attorney Charles Butler and his
wif Eliza move into a house they've had built on South Main Street
(later the Prouty-Chew House/Museum. ** Newell's Settlement
changes its name to Wyoming. ** The Oswego Canal connects the
Erie Canal with the east end of Lake Ontario. ** Robert Edward
Lee graduates from West Point, second in his
class. ** Daniel Webster marries Caroline Le Roy.
Rochester
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is founded. ** The
Reynolds Arcade is built.
<bold>1830</bold>
Mar 26
Joseph Smith begins selling <italic>The Book of Mormon</italic> in a
Palmyra bookstore.
Apr 6
The Mormon church (Church of Latter Day Saints) is organized by Joseph
Smith in Fayette, near Cayuga Lake.
City
The city's jurisdiction over underwater lands is extended. **
John William Hill paints a watercolor of Broadway and Trinity Church.
** Charles Fearson Durant flies to South Amboy, New Jersey by
balloon.
State
Ira Carpenter builds a wooden bridge at the Cox Ferry site on the
Genesee River near Rush. ** Batavia editor Frederick Follett
merges his<italic>Spirit of the Times</italic> with Daniel P. Adams'
<italic>People's Press</italic>. ** The <italic>Republican Aegis
and Allegany Democrat</italic> is published at Angelica. **
British actor Tyrone Power visits America, tours upstate. ** The
Watervliet Shakers build a Trustees Office. ** Hugh White, brother
of Canal engineer Canvass White, builds a home at Waterford. It will
become the Waterford Historical Museum. ** The approximate date
Augustus Porter, brother of General Peter B. Porter, builds a house in
Buffalo, at the intersection of Amherst and East streets. **
Civil War general Henry Hopkins Sibley graduates in the lower third of
his West Point class.
<bold>1831</bold>
Jan 26
Children's author Mary Mapes Dodge is born in New York City.
Mar 3
Inventor George Mortimer Pullman is born in Brocton.
Mar 19
New York's City Bank is robbed, the first bank robbery in the U. S.
The thieves get away with $245,000.
Mar 30
The Albany Orphan Asylum, in operation for most of the past two years,
is incorporated.
Apr 18
The University of the City of New York (later NYU), is chartered.
Apr 25
Robert K. Paulding's play <italic>The Lion of the West</italic>
premieres at New York City's Park Theatre.
Apr 26
The New York State legislature abolishes debtor imprisonment.
May 17
Rochester pioneer Colonel Nathaniel Rochester dies in Genesee County,
at the age of 80.
June
A fire destroys William Campbell's stone mill on the banks of the
Genesee River in Rochester. The Aqueduct House is badly damaged.
Jul 4
Former president James Monroe dies in New York City.
Jul 31
The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad begins operations, from Albany to
Schenectady. Among the passengers are former governor Yates, former
Albany mayor John Townsend, Schenectady mayor John I. De Graff, Albany
police chief John Meigs, New York City police representative Jacob
Hayes and politician Thurlow Weed.
August
The Mormon Church moves to Kirtland, Ohio.
Aug 9
The steam locomotive <italic>Dewitt Clinton</italic> makes first run
between Albany and Schenectady. ** John C. Calhoun is nominated
for President in a New York City public meeting.
Oct 26
A protective tariff convention opens in New York City.
City
Lawyer and real estate developer Samuel Ruggles designs Gramercy Park,
as a private park, to attract wealthy residents. ** The University
of the City of New York becomes New York University (NYU). **
Gioacchino Rossini's opera <italic>La Cenerentola</italic> is produced
as <italic>Cinderella</italic>, becomes a perennial success. **
Swiss immigrants John and Peter Delmonico open a restaurant in lower
Manhattan. The menu is introduced to the U. S.
State
217 vessels put in at Carthage landing on the Genesee River, over a
third ofthem Canadian. ** Captain Oliver Teall's Syracuse water
monopoly, unused, reverts back to the village trustees. **
President Trumbull Cary and other officers of Batavia's Bank of the
Genesee begin building a building at the corner of East Main and Bank
streets. ** Troy doctor Samuel Guthrie discovers chloroform.
** Joseph Henry invents the electric motor and the first telegraph,
in Albany.
Rochester
The new public market opens on the city's west side. The east side's
Market Street is renamed Clyde Street. ** The state legislature
incorporates the Rochester Canal & Railway Company and capitalizes it
at $30,000.
<bold>1832</bold>
Jan 25
U. S. Senator William Learned Macy of New York first uses the phrase
"to the victors belong the spoils", in a speech.
Mar 1
The state's antipoverty legislation takes effect.
April
The Rochester &
Apr 25
The Brooklyn & Jamaica Railroad Company (forerunner of the Long Island
Railroad, is incorporated.
May
New England's Stonington-New York Railroad is incorporated, to complete
the link between New York City and Providence, Rhode Island.
May 16
Meatpacker-industrialist Philip Danforth Armour is born in
Stockbridge.
Jul 2
An outbreak of cholera begins in New York City. 4,000 are dead by
October.
September
The Rochester Canal and Railway Company completes a horse-car rail line
between Rochester and Carthage.
Nov 26
The start of operations of the first streetcar, by the New York and
Harlem Railroad, in New York City.
City
Upstate entrepreneur Daniel Richards moves to Brooklyn. **
Merchant Luman Reed has a house built in lower Manhattan.
State
The city of Buffalo is incorporated. ** Utica is incorporated as
a city. ** The steamboat <italic>Martha Ogden</italic> runs
aground on Lake Ontario's Stony Point. The passengers and the boat's
engine are rescued. The latter is installed in the 1816
<italic>Ontario</italic>, which is dismantled at the end of the season.
** A railroad is chartered to connect Dunkirk to the Hudson
River. ** The Utica Aqueduct Company is replaced by the Utica
Water Works Association. ** B. F. Smead takes over the Allegany
<italic>Republican</italic> from Samuel P. Hull and changes the name to
the Angelica <italic>Republican and Farmer's and Mechanic's Press
</italic>and then sells to Peter Cherr who renames it the
Allegany<italic> Repbulican andInternal Improvement Advocate
</italic>** The approximate date the State House ceases to be used
for housing city, county and state offices and courts and becomes part
of the Capitol complex. ** Geneva's Protestant Reformed Dutch
Church is erected, on South Main Street. ** University of
Chicago and Denison College president Galusha B. Anderson is born in
North Bergen. ** Washington Irving returns to the U. S. from
Spain, takes up residence in North Tarrytown. ** State legislator
Millard Fillmore is elected to the U. S. House of Representatives.
</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
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Dear John
I received your mail concerning a conference. You may have sent it to me by
mistake, because I do not know what your are refering.
As an aside, I am a Social Studies teacher within the Sachem School District
in Suffolk County. I am familiar with your area since Walden was my home
town.
Jim McMann
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- February 28, 1997
Contact: Judy Hohmann, (518) 473-8037, jhohmann=40mail.nysed.gov
New York State Archives Research Grants Announced
ALBANY -- The New York State Archives and the New York State Archives =
Partnership Trust announced that four scholars will receive grants to use =
records in the State Archives to examine a variety of historical subjects: =
the effectiveness of expert medical testimony at trials, 1890-1910; female =
juvenile delinquency in the 1950s; prison inmate deaths at Auburn Prison, =
1933-1963; and the movement of the carpet industry from New York to =
Mississippi, 1935-1975.
These competitive awards, made under the Larry J. Hackman Research =
Residency Program, provide grants to scholars who utilize State archival =
holdings to pursue research related to New York State history, government, =
or public policy. These grants usually range from =241,500 to =242,000 a =
month depending on the nature of research involved. Sponsored by the =
Archives Partnership Trust, the Residency Program honors a former New York =
State Archivist. Larry Hackman oversaw the dramatic development of the =
State Archives from 1981 - 1995. He is now Director of the Harry S. =
Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
The recipients of this year*s grants are as follows:
Mark R. Essig, Doctoral Candidate in American History, Cornell University. =
*The Jury Yawns and Wonders What It All Means: Forensic Medicine, Expert =
Testimony, and the Problem of Explaining Science to Nonscientists.* Essig =
will study court trials between 1890-1910 in which expert medical =
testimony played an important role and explore the relationship between =
scientific authority and the nonscientific public. Using Court of Appeals =
records and briefs and trial transcripts from New York County Criminal =
Courts, Essig will examine how the medical profession negotiated, =
protected and deployed its cultural authority. His study will also =
provide insights on how the nonscientific public responded to those claims =
of authority.
Rachel J. Devlin, Doctoral Candidate in History, Yale University. *Their =
Father*s Daughters*: Female Adolescence and the Problem of Sexual =
Authority in America, 1945-1965.* The State Archives* records from =
Westfield State Farm will provide the basis for Ms. Devlin*s research on =
female juvenile delinquency which increased dramatically during and after =
World War II. She will explore the ways in which female adolescent =
behavior was diagnosed and treated by New York State institutions in =
postwar America and how that behavior was thought to relate to other =
aspects of personality, including developmental problems and family =
history -- particularly father-daughter relationships.
Stephen C. Light, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, =
SUNY Plattsburgh. *Prisoners Discharged by Death from Auburn Prison, =
1933-1963.* Dr. Light will use the State Archives* inmate case files, =
wardens* files, physicians* reports and other records to answer a number =
of questions about the frequency and type of deaths that occurred at =
Auburn Prison, one of the oldest and most well-known prisons in American =
history. Many innovations first adopted at Auburn were subsequently =
adopted across the United States. Careful examination of inmate deaths =
will provide insight into the hidden social environment of the prison, the =
quality of the care that prisoners received, and implications for =
contemporary practices.
Tami J. Friedman, Doctoral Candidate in American History, Columbia =
University. *Communities in Competition: Capital Migration and Plant =
Relocation in the U.S. Carpet Industry, 1935-1975.* Ms. Friedman*s =
research focuses on the Alexander Smith Carpet Company and its effect on =
two cities, Yonkers, New York and Greenville, Mississippi. Using records =
of the State Labor Department, the New York State War Council, and the =
files of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, she will examine the relocation of the =
carpet mill in the South as part of a larger issue of how industrial =
relocation in the mid-twentieth century affected the communities that lost =
manufacturing jobs, as well as the communities that gained new ones.
The New York State Archives, part of the State Education Department, holds =
more than 100 million records of colonial and state government. There are =
foundation documents that protect the rights of New Yorkers and document =
the obligations of their government. Other records reveal the lives and =
work of ordinary and extraordinary New Yorkers throughout the history of =
the State. The mission of the State Archives is to identify, preserve, and =
make available for research use the archival records of New York State =
government.
The New York State Archives Partnership Trust is a public-private =
partnership created in 1992 to address a 350-year backlog of work in the =
State Archives=27 which occurred because New York was virtually the last =
state to open a formal state archives (1978). One of the Trust=27s =
initial goals is to build an endowment of =2410 million to help support =
preservation and greater accessibility to State Archival resources while =
also encouraging activities that increase the educational potential and =
awareness of New York=27s rich heritage.
Information on the 1998 Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program is =
available on line at http://www.sara.nysed.gov or by contacting Jill =
Rydberg, Archives Partnership Trust, Cultural Education Center, Room 9C49, =
Albany, New York 12230, (518) 473-7091.
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Subject: GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC FINDING AIDS
March 25, 1997
To NYLINE subscribers:
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC FINDING AIDS POSTED
Researchers, military historians, and Civil War veterans'
descendants now have Internet access to finding aids for the Grand Army of
the Republic Papers, New York State Department (1866-1948) held by the New
York State Library. Descriptions and inventories of the collection are
available through the New York State Library's web site at
<http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/fa_toc.htm>.
"The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a large multi-faceted
organization (fraternal lodge, charitable society, special interest lobby,
patriotic group, and political club) founded in 1866 by Union Army Surgeon
Benjamin Franklin Stephenson," says James Corsaro, Associate Librarian for
Manuscripts and Special Collections at the New York State Library. "GAR
lobbied for veterans' pensions and promoted patriotism through parades,
national encampments, placement of war memorials, and the establishment of
Memorial Day as a national holiday."
The New York State Department materials include administrative
records and correspondence, regimental history survey files, rosters and
charters of posts, encampment files, photographs, and valuable
information about post members and their service records. There is also
extensive information about the disbandment of posts from the 1920s to the
1940s.
"The finding guide contains a scope and content note, along
with a detailed listing of the contents of each box and folder in the
collection," says Corsaro. "Researchers can know which
parts of the collection they want to use before they come to
the Library, thus saving valuable research time."
"The Grand Army of the Republic records are part of the New York
State Library's extensive collection of Civil War related materials," adds
Lee Stanton, Interim Director of the New York State Research Library. "We
hope to have a complete guide to the State Library's Civil War
manuscripts and archives collections available on the Library web page in
late May."
The New York State Library, a collection of over 19 million
items, is the largest state library in the nation and the only state
library to qualify for membership in the Association of Research
Libraries. The New York State library has major holdings in law, medicine,
the social sciences, education, American and New York State history and
culture, the pure sciences, and technology. It has served New Yorkers,
State government, and researchers from throughout the United States for
over 175 years.
The Manuscripts/Special Collections Unit was established within
the New York State Library in 1881. Its responsibilities include the
acquisition, access and preservation of the Library's collections of
archives and manuscripts, rare books, maps and atlases, prints and
photographs, broadsides and posters, musical scores, and ephemera.
"These finding aids are part of a series of guides on the State
Library's web site to help people get access to our manuscripts
collections," says Corsaro. "We also have descriptions and inventories of
the papers of conservationist/author Robert F. Hall (1928-1993), the
Adirondack Mountain Club Records (1922- ), and Civil War General/Western
explorer Gouverneur Kemble Warren Papers (1848-1882). The Internet
address for the finding aids is
<http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/fa_toc.htm>."
"The Library has been cataloging manuscripts and archival
collections on RLIN for several years and currently has over 3,000
bibliographic records for these collections," adds Corsaro. "The
bibliographic records are also available through the Library's online
catalog, Excelsior. The addition of the descriptive finding aids to the
Library's web site adds another level of access to the collections and
should be helpful to researchers using the State Library."
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In a message dated 97-03-27 08:59:40 EST, you write:
<< <http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/fa_toc.htm>.
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I am interested in finding information about the 124th NY Vol.s aka "Orange
Blossoms". My great grandfather, Francis McMahon, served with the reginment
during the Civl War and was an active member of the GAR. Additionally, any
infomration abot GAR chapters in Orange County.
Any assistance would be deeply appreciated.
James McMann
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Perhaps this will be of interest to those concerned with New York History.
>From James Cooke Mills History of Saginaw County. Volume 2.
"A sketch of the career of Jesse Hoyt includes to a large extent the
history of East Saginaw, for no other pioneer did so much toward its
creation and growth."....
"Jesse Hoyt was born in New York (City) on March 12, 1815. His father
James M. Hoyt, a wealthy merchant of the metropolis, after giving his
4 sons a liberal education trained them in mercantile and financial
pursuits...."
"Even at this day almost 20 yrs. after the semi-centenary (book pub. 1918)
of the founding of East Saginaw, one can scarcely turn in any direction
in this city without meeting with evidences of Jesse Hoyt's enterprise
or public benefaction."
"Mr Hoyt's last visit to East Saginaw was in the summer of 1877. (He
never lived here, but his brother Alfred did) Although making his home
in New York City, he always expressed fondness for the tall timber of
the Michigan forests..."
"His generosity was clearly manifest in his giving to the city the
valuable property now comprising Hoyt Park, one of the show places of the
city....Of even greater value for the ethical growth of the people was
his bequest of one hundred thousand dollars for the establishment of a
free reference library known as Hoyt Library."
**********************************************************************
Note: Saginaw has had Hoyt street, Hoyt School, and several subdivisions
with the name "Hoyt" attached, such as Hoyt's Northern Addition.
When Jesse Hoyt died in 1882 he left a wife and one daughter which
they said was an invalid. The daughter contested the will, and that
story is an interesting one as well. We have here at the Hoyt Library
several volumes of the "Hoyt Will Case" from New York's Surrogate Court.
Irene Hoyt visited East Saginaw, and said that if she won her case
she would donate even more money to the library. She claimed her
uncles were cheating her out of her inheritance, had put her in a
sanitarium, and wouldn't let her attend her father's funeral.
>From newspaper accounts from the New York Times, they made it sound
as if she had a drinking problem.
In any event Saginaw got its library which opened in 1890. The architects
were Van Brunt & Howe, but the building is refered to as a Richardsonian
style building. A few years ago we celebrated our centennial and over
the past few years, the building has been undergoing restoration. The
first section to be renovated was the 2nd floor where the genealogy &
local history was moved. Now it's the rest of the building. Plaster is
being repaired, wood is being stripped and refinished, and walls and
columns are being finished in the original Victorian colors. It will
be magnificent when finished. In the 1920's an addition was added
using the same stone and style, and adding a "Norman" porch.
I'm afraid that Saginaw does not have a good record of historic
preservation, but this building and its companion on the block are the
exceptions. When people from out of town ask directions, I tell them
you can't miss us. We are one of two castles on the same block.
The other building I refer to is a structure now called "The Castle
Building" which houses our county's historical museum. Originally built
as a post office/federal building back in 1896, it was designed to look
like a French Chateau.
In the 1930's it also was added to, making an even larger "Castle".
It was always said that it was a replica of Alexis DeTocqueville's
Chateau in France, but now it is said this is not so.
In any event Alexis DeTocqueville did visit Saginaw and had his
"Fortnight in the Wilderness" in the 1831.
He said "In a few years these impenetrable forests will have fallen;
the sons of civilization and industry will break the silence on the
Saginaw; its echoes will cease; the banks will be imprisoned with quays;
its current which now flows on unnoticed and tranquil through a nameless
waste, will be stemmed by the prows of vessels. More than a hundred miles
sever this solitude from the great European settlements, and we were,
perhaps, the last travellers allowed to see its primitive grandeur."
So Saginaw with its esteemed French visitor, and its background of
French-Canadian influences had a post office built like a French Chateau.
A cable station (I forget which) is doing a documentary on Alexis
DeTocqueville, and visiting the sites he visited to see what has
happened to them, so of course they'll be coming to Saginaw.
Just thought I'd pass along these interesting facts. If anyone should
happen to have further information about our Jesse Hoyt we would add
it to our files. There was more than one Jesse Hoyt from New York,
businessman. About 16 years ago the Ontario Provincial Archives had
a display depicting another Jesse Hoyt from New York.
Anna Mae Maday
Eddy Historical & Genealogy Collection
Hoyt Public Library
505 Janes Ave
Saginaw MI 48607
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Details on several New Yorkers listed in Siebert's Underground Railroad
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A particularly useful reference in this project has been Carol Hunter's
"To Set The Captives Free", a biography of Jermain Wesley Loguen, the
Syracuse Stationmaster. Hunter is now teaching at Earlham College in
Indiana, and planning to release an annotated version of "Jermain Wesley
Loguen as a Slave and a Freeman."
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Conference on New York State History
June 5-8, 1997
Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs
Session Titles
Thursday (June 5)
Workshops:
GIS and Cultural Resources
Presenting New York History on the World Wide Web
Walking Panel: Congress Park as Artifact
Friday (June 6)
Saratoga Springs: A Resort for Young America
Welfare New York Style
Money and Finance in the New State
Soldiers of the French and Indian War
Who's Job is it Anyway: Work Consciousness in New York City
Rural Newspapers and Black Print Culture
Colonial Dutch New York Revisited: An Updated Historiography,
1985-1997
Punks, Puerto Ricans, and Progressive Education in 20th Century
New York City
Gender and Piety in Methodist and Presbyterian Churches
The Montauketts of Long Island
Women at Work and Play
Community History: Founding and Reform
The Alexander C. Flick Lecture in New York State History
Becoming Second Nature: The Erie Canal and the Culture of
Progress
Carol Sheriff
College of William & Mary
Saturday (June 7)
Radical Women in New York City: Three Generations
Constitutionalism and Urban Reform
African American Identity in the Hudson Valley
Market and Pushcart in New York City
The Iroquois Empire
Underground Riches: The Cement and Glass Industries
This program is the largest and most comprehensive in the history
of the Conference. In addition to paper and workshop sessions and a
keynote address, publishers, book sellers, historical organizations, and
service groups will exhibit their materials as the conference expands to
become a New York history fair. All members of the New York history
community are welcome to participate!
Printed programs will be distributed in mid-April.
To be added to the mailing list or for more information, contact the
Conference on New York State History via e-mail at
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By April 1, the complete program text and registration forms will be
available on New York History Net at www.nyhistory.com/histconf.htm.
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